Boutros Ghali

Boutros Ghali (1846-21 February 1910) was the Prime Minister of Egypt from 1908 to 1910, succeeding Mustafa Fahmi Pasha and preceding Muhammad Said Pasha.

Biography
Boutros Ghali was born to a Coptic Christian family in Kimal al-Arus, Beni Suef, Egypt in 1846. He spoke Arabic, Turkish, Persian, English, and French and became a teacher at a patriarchal school and in 1879 he was made the Secretary-General of the Commission of the Public Debt, a party of the government in which he was formerly a clerk. In 1893 he became Minister of Finance, in 1894 he became Foreign Minister, and in 1908 he became the new Prime Minister.

On 21 February 1910, he was assassinated by 23-year-old Egyptian pharmaceutical graduate Ibrahim Nassif al-Wardani outside of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Cairo because he was accused of supporting the British after the Denshawai incident, in which British troops killed and injured a few Egyptians who were mad about the British accidentally killing their pigeons. Ghali's grandson Boutros Boutros-Ghali became the Secretary-General of the United Nations in 1992.